Banque ouest africaine de développement (BOAD)
West African Development Bank (WADB)
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URL: http://www.boad.org/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/boad_official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boadofficial/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/west-african-development-bank
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV0smxHJbpXDdAO23mvUbKg
Founded
1973-11-14 Paris France
History
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As a joint financing institution of UEMOA member states, promote their balanced development and achieve economic integration of West Africa; assist in pooling available internal resources; mobilize external capital, both loans and grants; finance by means of loans, guarantees, shareholdings, etc, projects designed to build up the infrastructure needed for development; establish new activities; improve conditions and means of production, transferring ownership of means of production and of distribution of goods and services to public or private legal entities in UEMOA countries or to individual citizens of those countries; prepare and evaluate development projects.
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Invited as observer to meetings of: E-XE8201 - Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries (Development Committee). Accredited by: E-XK1561 - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Secretariat (UNFCCC). Member of: H-XD6435 - Association of Regional and Sub-regional Development Finance Institutions in West Africa; F-XJ0427 - African Legal Support Facility (ALSF). Bilateral cooperation with governments of several industrialized countries. Partner of: D-XD7796 - Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA). Implementing agency of: F-XF2335 - Global Environment Facility (GEF). Regional cooperation with:
- ADB;
- F-XF9108 - African Guarantee and Economic Cooperation Fund (FAGACE);
- F-XF4179 - Banque de développement des Etats de l'Afrique centrale (BDEAC);
- F-XF6592 - ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID).
International cooperation with:
- F-XF3515 - Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa;
- U-XG5650 - Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA);
- EIB;
- F-XF1393 - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD);
- F-XF2057 - International Finance Corporation (IFC);
- F-XF1721 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD);
- F-XF2266 - International Monetary Fund (IMF);
- F-XF4542 - Islamic Development Bank (IsDB);
- F-XF6504 - OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID);
- E-XE3382 - UNDP.
Cooperation agreements with:
- H-XE6264 - African Regional Centre for Engineering Design and Manufacturing (ARCEDEM);
- D-XD4566 - Comité permanent inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS);
- B-XB2622 - International Telecommunication Union (ITU);
- B-XE3386 - UNIDO;
- D-XD4386 - Union of African Railways (UAR);
- E-XE4174 - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA);
- G-XG2898 - United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Links with:
- F-XF0121 - African Development Bank Group (ADB Group);
- G-XG9639 - Agence française de développement (AFD);
- F-XF6184 - Conférence des ministres des finances des pays de la Zone franc;
- G-XG6835 - DANIDA;
- F-XF4208 - East African Development Bank (EADB);
- F-XD3462 - Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS);
- D-XD0453 - Entente Council;
- E-XE2442 - European Commission (EC);
- E-XE0361 - FAO Investment Centre;
- F-XF8389 - Fonds de solidarité africain (FSA);
- B-XB1791 - International Development Association (IDA);
- E-XE2639 - International Trade Centre (ITC);
- G-XF8611 - Investeringsfonden for Udviklingslande (IFU);
- G-XG7330 - Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED);
- U-XF4252 - Mutual Aid and Loan Guaranty Fund of the Entente Council (EC-Fund);
- E-XE3879 - Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF);
- E-XD3036 - Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS);
- F-XF5161 - United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).
Links indicated by: D-XE4873 - Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar; D-XD8972 - Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Gambie (OMVG).
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Special member of: D-XD4539 - Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI). Member of: F-XM8847 - International Development Finance Club (IDFC). Cooperation agreements with: U-XG1577 - Agency for Technological Development and Design with Developing Countries. H-XD6350 - International Agency for Rural Industrialization (INARI); U-XF0558 - SIFIDA Investment Company; U-XJ8337 - Universal Engineering and Finance Corporation (UNEFICO). International cooperation with: G-XG5239 - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW); G-XG6432 - Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB).
Links with:
- D-XD6104 - Association of Power Utilities in Africa (APUA);
- F-XF4640 - Club des dirigeants des banques et établissements de crédit d'Afrique francophone;
- G-XG7724 - Ecobank Development Corporation (EDC);
- F-XF0988 - Europengineers;
- F-XF3094 - Grameen Bank (GB);
- E-XE3975 - International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC);
- G-XG3869 - Société de promotion et de participations pour la coopération économique, Paris (PROPARCO);
- E-XE5982 - West African Women's Association (WAWA);
- H-XD2851 - West and Central African Association of Soil Science (WCAASS);
- C-XC9152 - World Federation of Development Financing Institutions (WFDFI).
Links indicated by: F-XJ1405 - EuraAudit International.
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UN Sustainable Development Goals **
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XF4540
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